Ted Cruz: Obama Is Not A Monarch, Cannot Act Alone

Senator Ted Cruz outlined a two-part plan to combat President Obama’s lawlessness in his plan to grant amnesty to 5 million undocumented immigrants on Wednesday’s The Kelly File on Fox News.The Texas Senator told Megyn Kelly that first,

“The new Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, should stand up and say, ‘If you disregard the Constitution, if you disregard the law, if you issue this executive amnesty, the new Congress, for the next two years, will not confirm a single nomination, judicial or executive, other than vital national security positions, until you end this illegal amnesty.’”

Cruz said the second step is for Congress to authorize funding for crucial government agencies one at a time.

“We need to use the power of the purse…We need to systematically pass appropriations legislation funding the Department of Defense, funding the VA, funding one department after another after another. And then, once the vital functions are funded, we need to pass appropriations with riders specifically limiting the power of the Congress and the power of the president to spend money on illegal amnesty.”

Kelly commented that if the president were unwilling to sign those bills, it could force a government shutdown which he would blame on the Republicans.Cruz replied,

“There is no Republican, not one, who wants a government shutdown. The only person on this planet who wants a government shutdown is President Obama…

“A presidential temper tantrum is not a rational response… The president has to work with Congress.”